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A friend from Hong Kong recently asked me in the chat, if I'd be interested in a crazy idea. Even though I've been busy, I took a chance and listened to her. Actually it was so crazy, that I loved it. She was about to collect chinese songs, sang by foreigners which learn mandarin or cantonese. Other people will have...

My custom light saber replica isn't the best cos it lacks of details and the authenticity. Actually it's based on the saber hilt of the character "Obi Wan Kenobi" in the movie "Star Wars EP.III  Revenge of the Sith" but as reference I took a 3D model modification from the computer game Jedi Knight III. During my apprenticeship...

We still have freezing temperatures everywhere in Germany. In my town, streets are covered with snow and thick layers of ice in many locations and walking can get a glissade faster than you can imagine. Yet I never have taken any images of this winter and so I've decided to go for a walk today around the local lake. approx....

Since a while now, I'm studying each afternoon when I return back home. Of course it's just limited to two or three hours maximum but still better than nothing. Since three weeks I'm als having the third semester on chinese language. It's a course for basic Mandarin each Wednesday. Actually it's a real pleasure going there...

Two weeks are over now. Last time I took actions for Chinese and learned approximately 30 new words including about 40 new symbols. This time I did not take the book but instead I used some Chinese written sentences from the last chat conversation I had. Just five lines of text but it took me nearly an 3/4 hour to extract...